The Ghana Federation of Disability Organizations {GFD} has given the MP for Nadowli West Constituency and Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin an ultimatum of 4 days starting from today to come out and render an unqualified apology to persons with disabilities and the people of Ghana. The demand by the GFD followed what many described as reckless statement ...
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China’s investment in Ghana hits three billion Dollars
Ghana’s exports to China increased by 41.3% last year. China’s non-financial direct investment to Ghana reached US$3.213 billion by the end of 2017, involving electricity, aviation, building materials and other fields said Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, H.E Shi Ting Wang. Today, China is the largest trading partner of Ghana. The trade volume between the two countries has soared from less ...
Read More »Ghana loses 7% of GDP to psychological distress
Chairperson of the Ghana Psychological Council Professor Angela Ofori Atta says Ghana loses 7% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to psychological distress cases. She made this revelation at the 4th Scientific Conference held at UPSA in Accra. According to Professor Ofori Atta, the loss is because the nation is not taking mental well-being as seriously as it ought to. ...
Read More »Post us by August or face street protests – Unemployed Nurses
Unemployed nurses have given government an August 2018 deadline to post them or face unabated street protest dubbed ‘one million walks’ through the principal streets of Accra to the Jubilee House, the seat of government. “If eight (8) months into the year, the government is unable to employ a single nurse, how convincing is it that over twenty-seven thousand (27,000) ...
Read More »Govt to earn US$100m annually from E-Waste project
The government is expected to rake in an annual revenue of US$100 million from the electronic waste project which involves the responsible collection and recycling of electronic waste. The project, which is in partnership with Societe General De Surveillance SA (SGS), is also expected to create over 20,000 full-time jobs for the youth within the first year of implementation. The ...
Read More »Local Assemblies must help tourists stay in host communities -GTA
Mr. Akwasi Agyeman, Chief Executive Officer, Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has urged local Assemblies to invest in social amenities at tourist sites to encourage guests to stay in host communities. He said the lack of accommodation and toilet facilities compelled tourists to live outside host communities, which negatively affected the local economy of such communities and the Assemblies. Mr Agyeman ...
Read More »Engage children before rolling out child-based interventions
The Executive Director of Child Rights International{CRI}, Mr Bright Appiah, has called on the government to enagage with children before rolling out social intervention programmes that target them as beneficiaries. He said half of the challenges that had characterised the educational sector, in particular, could have been avoided if children, who were the beneficiaries, had been involved in planning the ...
Read More »Kofi Annan was the United Nations – Guterres
Mr Antonio Guterres, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, says the late Kofi Annan was an embodiment of the UN, and has expressed profound sadness at the news of his passing. “In many ways, Kofi Annan was the United Nations. He rose through the ranks to lead the organisation into the new millennium with matchless dignity and determination,” he said. The UN ...
Read More »Time To Cover Accra’s Gutters
There are many good reasons Accra should join the rest of the modern world in having covered gutters. We do not have to travel far to relish a city with covered gutters. The nearby Francophone countries are cases in point. We do not understand why the Brits did not introduce us to covered gutters as their colleague colonizers did to ...
Read More »Heading For The ECOWAS’ Eldorado; Invasion Of The Beggars
There has never been such a large influx of beggars from the West African sub-region. For these swarms of alms-seeking persons — our neighbours from as far afield as Niger and Nigeria — this country is an oasis of wealth, an Eldorado where poverty will surely give way to wealth; a nirvana of sorts. They will, therefore, do all they ...
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